[mtc010170]

Watch out folks - critical discussions about Reddit seem to be getting flagged as flame bait. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36347400

Idk why. We should be able to have a civilized, intellectually curious discussion about this. The future of Reddit (and its implications for the future of the Internet) is pretty on-topic to me for HN.

@dang can we get a stance on this?

[silcoon]

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/reddit

[andreareina]

> We moderate less, not more, when YC or a YC-related startup is the story

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34937269

[tinus_hn]

It’s quite possible that people are just flagging these stories because it’s not interesting enough to facilitate 20 discussions without it turning into threads with 500 comments rehashing the same arguments.

Reddit might be a big deal to you but many people over here just don’t care and they don’t want to see topic after topic about a site they don’t care about. And it’s going to have the same impact on the ‘future of the internet’ as the demise of Digg. Not a whole lot really, sites come and go, in a year nobody cares. Remember MySpace?

[Seattle3503]

Reddit is a big deal to me, I moderate multiple subreddits with 6 figure subscriber counts, from a third party app. With that said, the discussion on HN is basically played out. There isn't a lot new to say.

[tester457]

In this more mature internet, a demise of reddit would be more impactful.

"Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts" [1]

Digg never had this influence, nor a decade plus of useful threads with information not found anywhere else.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36319392

[midoridensha]

There's several Reddit-executive boot-lickers here in the comments. They're probably flagging the discussions.